"Welcome to the war, kid." Marcus muttered quietly, not knowing if he was speaking to Rice or to himself.
…
On the night of February 21, 1996, a few hours after Little Bush finished a meeting with key personnel, at the Capitol Hill, Senate Hall.
He sat below with a helpless expression, listening to Howard McCarthy, one of the senior Republican Party Leaders from Massachusetts, delivering an impassioned speech on the podium.
"Yes, we are all concerned about the tragedy in Maine, concerned about how our brave young men are defending against foreign invasion on the East Coast! But, Mr. President, fellow colleagues, ask yourselves, why? Why are we trapped in the desperate situation of fighting on two fronts, no, three fronts?!"
"Is it because of a mad Mexican dictator? Is it because of a rebellious Governor of Illinois? No! The root cause lies in the catastrophic foreign policy and domestic policy failures of this government!"
